I would think that people hear would understand how to deal with a crisis but I guess it doesn’t seem so.

So, you’re saying it is possible for other people to give you answers to your questions and to help? That’s a change. Normally you say there are no answers and no one has the answers and no one can help you and you’ve tried everything.

Titan, it sounds to me is if you are suffering from a serious anxiety disorder or Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. OCD reveals itself in many ways and includes various kinds of obsessions, not jist the obvious ones. Fortunately, there are treatments for both disorders through a psychiatrist or psychologist. Anti anxiety drugs may help. You won’t be able treat it yourself. It will only get worse. You have begun to obseess over your obsessions.

Lois

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[color=red“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
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Titan, it sounds to me is if you are suffering from a serious anxiety disorder or Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. OCD reveals itself in many ways and includes various kinds of obsessions, not jist the obvious ones. Fortunately, there are treatments for both disorders through a psychiatrist or psychologist. Anti anxiety drugs may help. You won’t be able treat it yourself. It will only get worse. You have begun to obseess over your obsessions.

Lois

It thought it had something to do with the things I have read which made it happen, but maybe you have a point. It’s just that I hear alot of people discounting mental issues as psychiatry just looking for meds to sell or that it’s the questions you are wrestling with and not the condition.

Titan, it sounds to me is if you are suffering from a serious anxiety disorder or Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. OCD reveals itself in many ways and includes various kinds of obsessions, not jist the obvious ones. Fortunately, there are treatments for both disorders through a psychiatrist or psychologist. Anti anxiety drugs may help. You won’t be able treat it yourself. It will only get worse. You have begun to obseess over your obsessions.

Lois

It thought it had something to do with the things I have read which made it happen, but maybe you have a point. It’s just that I hear alot of people discounting mental issues as psychiatry just looking for meds to sell or that it’s the questions you are wrestling with and not the condition.

Unfortunately, psychiatry, like everything else, requires that the patient makes some decisions about whether or not they are doing a good job. But at least the psychiatrist has a license, unlike the things you read on the internet, which are written by who knows who or in the case of Charles Manson, someone who is literally insane.

Titan, it sounds to me is if you are suffering from a serious anxiety disorder or Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. OCD reveals itself in many ways and includes various kinds of obsessions, not jist the obvious ones. Fortunately, there are treatments for both disorders through a psychiatrist or psychologist. Anti anxiety drugs may help. You won’t be able treat it yourself. It will only get worse. You have begun to obseess over your obsessions.

Lois

It thought it had something to do with the things I have read which made it happen, but maybe you have a point. It’s just that I hear alot of people discounting mental issues as psychiatry just looking for meds to sell or that it’s the questions you are wrestling with and not the condition.

Unfortunately, psychiatry, like everything else, requires that the patient makes some decisions about whether or not they are doing a good job. But at least the psychiatrist has a license, unlike the things you read on the internet, which are written by who knows who or in the case of Charles Manson, someone who is literally insane.

But we are talking about ideas that have been wrestled with. I just find it difficult to reconcile the cosmic meaninglessness that is all around me. I think Camus stated that it was being a meaning seeking creature in a universe void of any and unwilling to surrender any.

Titan, it sounds to me is if you are suffering from a serious anxiety disorder or Obsessive-Compulsive disorder. OCD reveals itself in many ways and includes various kinds of obsessions, not jist the obvious ones. Fortunately, there are treatments for both disorders through a psychiatrist or psychologist. Anti anxiety drugs may help. You won’t be able treat it yourself. It will only get worse. You have begun to obseess over your obsessions.

Lois

It thought it had something to do with the things I have read which made it happen, but maybe you have a point. It’s just that I hear alot of people discounting mental issues as psychiatry just looking for meds to sell or that it’s the questions you are wrestling with and not the condition.

Unfortunately, psychiatry, like everything else, requires that the patient makes some decisions about whether or not they are doing a good job. But at least the psychiatrist has a license, unlike the things you read on the internet, which are written by who knows who or in the case of Charles Manson, someone who is literally insane.

But we are talking about ideas that have been wrestled with. I just find it difficult to reconcile the cosmic meaninglessness that is all around me. I think Camus stated that it was being a meaning seeking creature in a universe void of any and unwilling to surrender any.

Why does there have to be any purposet in life? Does your happiness really rely on there being a meaning? I just don’t get this obsession. If you really do struggle with no resolution, then talk with a therapist.

Also, I don’t think you appreciate the liability factor here. Maybe if you repeatedly assure everyone that you’re not self destructive then you might get better responses.

I’m not intent on killing myself, I’ve been to that edge many times and never did it. But I am tired of this popping into my head all the time.

The inherent meaninglessness of life, how the world we have built only matters to us, the very things we live and die for are just our own constructs (some would go so far as to call them illusions). The things we assign value to don’t matter to anything but us, I believe some called it an anthrocentric view of reality, that humans occupy some sort of special place. Or how we really just spend a great deal of time solving problems of our own creation and squabbles between each other. I look at the amount of hatred and division and I don’t understand it. I mean everyone is human right? I don’t really understand countries and borders, it just seems like lines on a map to me.

It’s like I’m looking at the world I was a part of through a snow globe, it seems rather alien now and I’m not sure if I can go back. It’s hard to let go of that whole cosmic perspective and return to a view of reality that puts us at the center.